The next Guitar Hero title may be better than we first expected. Focusing on …

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Guitar Hero: Metallica is next in line to keep the Guitar Hero updates coming, and USA Today has some interesting information about what we can expect from the game. Expect a bigger challenge than what you may be used to, and you'll be able to hook up a second pedal to your drums in order to barely keep up with the rest of the band. Just like Lars!

The game's story will focus on a young band trying to make its way, and will feature not only songs by Metallica but also by bands that have influenced the band. The list of bands is impressive: Queen, the Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Kyuss and Samhain will be providing tracks. For fans of rock music, that's a pretty intense list of talent.

The tracks will be given the full-band treatment, as you can play with up to three other people for the true Metallica experience. Lead designer Alan Flores claimed that the game will be "a couple grades harder than Guitar Hero World Tour."

The first Guitar Hero title centered around a single band was Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and that title was an enjoyable, if short, look at the influential band. The problem was that the production values were slightly rough, with grainy video and some odd song choices. The songs also couldn't be used in any other Guitar Hero game; do people really want to put in a disc and play that much of one band? Justifying the $50+ expected price would be much easier if you could export the songs to World Tour after playing through the career mode of the game.

Guitar Hero: Metallica is expected in the first half of 2009 for the PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, and Nintendo Wii.